8:24 PM
Robotic jellyfish are being developed by researchers to put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around the world. The jellyfish could patrol the oceans, clean oil spills, and monitor the environment--and a small robotic jellyfish is already operational at Virginia Tech:
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/05/Manufacturing-Robotic-Jellyfish-Could-Patrol-Oceans-Clean-Oil-Spills-And-Detect-Pollutants/
A "spy virus" called Flame, thought to be the biggest, longest-running and most complicated ever constructed has actively spread throughout the Middle East for up to 5 years. Experts say that since the virus just spies instead of steals, it could only come from a well-funded government espionage program. One hint to the motives behind the virus is that it has been very active in Iran:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=48777&id=24918e49-f85e-4515-a3ae-5f0b6506f9f5
Mexican drug cartels often make a lot of money from extortion of private citizens and businesses, where the people or businesses have to pay them or risk attack. Several arson attacks over the weekend against a Mexican snack chip subsidiary might be the first time that a Mexican cartel has targeted a multinational corporation. Effectively, the Knights Templar cartel (they use a logo of muscle-bound medieval knights) has declared war on Pepsi and Cheetos:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/cartels-cheetos/
Google filed for an interesting patent that allows the Google Glasses to know what you are looking at and then provide neat little nuggets of information about what you're seeing. The glasses could also see the page you are reading and look for information deeper in the website that you haven't even looked at yet, bringing up the most useful bits of information and showing it to you:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/29/google-patents-view-augmentation-method-and-glasses/
Facebook hopes to release a smartphone by 2013 and has hired a number of software and hardware engineers from Apple. Their Buffy team (named after the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show) has increased significantly in size and they are moving forward with their plans:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/rumor-mill-facebook-goes-back-work-smartphone/2012-05-29
RIM's smartphone/tablet woes have had severe consequences: they currently have 16,500 employees and reportedly plan to get down to 10,000 people by early next year:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/report-rim-may-lay-2000-employees-amid-restructuring/2012-05-29
50+ year-old Colorado man went to the hospital for a kidney stone and found out that the test results found that he was actually a woman! The nurse told him that she found traits of both genders so he is intersex, meaning that he has both male genetalia and internal female sex organs. More than 1,500 children a year are born intersex, where they can have the male organ and testes but also have ovaries:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/05/25/man-admitted-to-hospital-for-kidney-stone-discovers-hes-a-woman/
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/05/Manufacturing-Robotic-Jellyfish-Could-Patrol-Oceans-Clean-Oil-Spills-And-Detect-Pollutants/
A "spy virus" called Flame, thought to be the biggest, longest-running and most complicated ever constructed has actively spread throughout the Middle East for up to 5 years. Experts say that since the virus just spies instead of steals, it could only come from a well-funded government espionage program. One hint to the motives behind the virus is that it has been very active in Iran:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=48777&id=24918e49-f85e-4515-a3ae-5f0b6506f9f5
Mexican drug cartels often make a lot of money from extortion of private citizens and businesses, where the people or businesses have to pay them or risk attack. Several arson attacks over the weekend against a Mexican snack chip subsidiary might be the first time that a Mexican cartel has targeted a multinational corporation. Effectively, the Knights Templar cartel (they use a logo of muscle-bound medieval knights) has declared war on Pepsi and Cheetos:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/cartels-cheetos/
Google filed for an interesting patent that allows the Google Glasses to know what you are looking at and then provide neat little nuggets of information about what you're seeing. The glasses could also see the page you are reading and look for information deeper in the website that you haven't even looked at yet, bringing up the most useful bits of information and showing it to you:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/29/google-patents-view-augmentation-method-and-glasses/
Facebook hopes to release a smartphone by 2013 and has hired a number of software and hardware engineers from Apple. Their Buffy team (named after the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show) has increased significantly in size and they are moving forward with their plans:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/rumor-mill-facebook-goes-back-work-smartphone/2012-05-29
RIM's smartphone/tablet woes have had severe consequences: they currently have 16,500 employees and reportedly plan to get down to 10,000 people by early next year:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/report-rim-may-lay-2000-employees-amid-restructuring/2012-05-29
50+ year-old Colorado man went to the hospital for a kidney stone and found out that the test results found that he was actually a woman! The nurse told him that she found traits of both genders so he is intersex, meaning that he has both male genetalia and internal female sex organs. More than 1,500 children a year are born intersex, where they can have the male organ and testes but also have ovaries:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/05/25/man-admitted-to-hospital-for-kidney-stone-discovers-hes-a-woman/